chess

Other forms of chess

plural

chesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about chess

What does chess mean?

chess means "weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in chess?

chess has 1 syllable: chess. In IPA it is /ˈtʃɛs/.

What is another word for chess?

Close synonyms include cheat, Bromus secalinus, chess game. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is chess a common word?

chess is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.